2012 a year of headless bodies, a dead beauty queen and a new president as Mexico narco wars rage on

From the deaths and arrests of several top drug cartel players to the shooting of a beauty queen; attack on two CIA contractors and the Texas Department of Public Safety opening fire from a borderland helicopter, 2012 saw plenty of Narco Wars action.

Here are some of the more significant moments. They are not in any particular order:

1. Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, head of the Zetas cartel is killed by Mexican sailors as part of a bizarre series of events in which his body was stolen from a funeral home and one of his deceased parents were later dug up to match DNA to clothing that had been removed from the body.

5. Enrique Peña Nieto is elected president of Mexico, says he’ll create a national police force to return rule of law.

Policemen gather as they clash with demonstrators outside the Congress in Mexico City before celebrations for the inauguration of Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. He inherits a country beset by a brutal drug war. AFP PHOTO/Pedro PardoPedro PARDO/AFP/Getty Images

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“2012 leaves dead beauty queen, headless bodies, new presidents as Mexico…”
‘New presidents’ ? I thought Mexico only had one president at a time? 2012 also leaves a few mega-million illegal Mexican parasites in the USA feasting on the taxpayers …

Yea this is what happens when gun laws are so restrictive that the average citizen has to fight tooth and nail to own a gun. Mexico has some very strong gun laws and they have even more violence then we do. Ours started to ramp us as the gun laws started getting stricter. We do not need more gun laws but less along with stronger penalties. If a person uses a gun in any crime they should get life without parole or executed if there is a death, rape, or kidnapping. We need to stop stripping away the rights and freedoms of the people because of certain criminals and start punishing the criminals.

To those who believe in the drug war, you must realize that by doing so you show absolutely no regard for public safety. Over the lifetime of the drug war, the US has mandated to the world that more than $10 TRILLION flow into the pockets of our terrorist enemies, the barbarous Latin cartels and to more than 30,000 violent US gangs who are now alligned with the cartels in more than 1,000 US cities. “Way to go boys.” – Chief Wiggams

I believe the author of this article and the editor of this paper hate America. To even consider that the DPS is a part of that cesspool war down in Mexico is insane. Shame on you for pandering to a country that loves violence and corruption.

The DPS is most certainly part of Mexico’s drug war – and the agency states such. The governor has deployed DPS in force to take on whatever come across the border from Mexico, and has designated the threat of cartels as among the top threats facing the region. For better for for worse, the DPS is the only law enforcement agency that I’m aware of that has officers (not snipers) fire from a moving helo at a moving vehicle.

No drugs were found in the vehicle. No weapons were brandished by the vehicle, such as being aimed at the helo. And so, some might argue that shooting at the truck – killing two people – was an especially high profile response. It certainly would not be permissible by any police department that I’m aware of. The Border Patrol doesn’t do it. The DEA doesn’t do it. Homeland Security doesn’t do it.
The DPS did indeed fire on a truckload of immigrants sneaking into the United States. If we open the discussion to all manner of could have been, might have been, we could have quite a lengthy list of items that did not pan out. It is up to the public to decide if this is good or bad, right or wrong, etc. Those are the facts as they have been released by the government. I appreciate your interest and certainly welcome the discussion.

Dane, you are on the mark with your thought that the DPS did what no other law enforcement agency does, that is to assume that they were firing on a load of drugs. Just like every aspect of the drug war, good intentions are leading us to failure, fiasco and horrible consequences.